It’s so important to emphasize how esoteric AWS can be — even at the entry level of knowing WHAT it is.

I was in a conversation with a successful small business owner. Her company uses an MSP for IT. Asked why she didn't use AWS, she was blown away that Amazon provided IT services. Her perspective on how Amazon sells things at scale with margin, including IT, was insightful.

This whole thread is awesome, but Tom’s comment is particularly endearing. It’s also a great reminder of Farrah Campbell’s advice to people interested in joining tech: join a community early to advance faster, have more of an impact, and be a part of quality inside jokes.

One of the things I like about the serverless community is it reminds me of the early days of the DevOps community where there was just a lot of little weird in jokes.